An Unintended Snub

I haven't got time to write much of an entry at the moment, but I realized I had forgotten to post page 4 here (though it was posted in my deviantart gallery)

Remember, reads from right to left (not that it matters much on this page... the higher text is still read first)


Heterochromia: Page 4
Well. That took longer than I'd hoped. Turns out, it's difficult to express romance and shock in the same panel in tones. I dunno if there's enough contrast between the background and the main figures... I'll come and look back later, I guess (though, I might as well just move on and do better in the future instead of going back and fixing little things like that...) I'm sort of surprised the lines turned out as well as they did, because this page got really rushed back in January. You'll notice the lines are a bit thick. Also, my style, at least for drawing hair, changed a little bit. We'll see if that sticks around. Kind of wish I could fix Tamino's face. (Oh, and no--he's not communicating telepathically, I just thought I'd try balloon-less text) Not much (relatively) to say this time -- guess it's just been too long since I drew it, and I'm starting to get my toning routine down.

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Pages 5, 6, and 7 have also been completely drawn and inked, but I haven't toned any of those yet (or added the lettering and things...) Look for those soon, although they may be delayed in coming due to certain research papers I haven't started writing yet. >_> I hope to post again between then and now.

A Return, with Gifts (of a sort)

As predicted, things were not as manageable at they appeared to be. I had hoped it wouldn't take me this long, even being realistic about the amount of free time I would have to finish these pages, but obviously my hopes were not fulfilled. Better that I take a break and renew my interest than to do the pages dispassionately, I think.

That said, here they are finally are: the first pages of Heterochromia. Each of these pages, by the way, are under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license: you can share, just remember to link ^_^

Also: Pages are read right-to-left, in the style of "unflopped" manga.

That Little Distraction

Well well well. School certainly has gotten in the way, hasn't it. I apologize for the long absence, but unfortunately have nothing to offer in penance. Heterochromia's essentially taken a break in the development process, and the pages have stayed at more or less the same state they were when I released last journal's progress figures. In truth, most of the humans on those pages have been drawn, just not... the aliens or backgrounds. Somewhat of a mental block, there. However, because I am oh-so-clever enough to combine schoolwork and pleasure, I am now obligated to finish the first four pages by the end of winter break... January 7th, about three and a half weeks from now. Sounds manageable. We'll see. So much else to do.

Before I Forget...

As seen on my white-board (translated from a salmagundi of French, Japanese and English):

"Page 1:
Pencils - 30%
Inks - 0%
Lettering - 30%
Toning - 0%
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Total - 15%

Page 2:
Pencils - 78%
Inks - 65%
Lettering - 50%
Toning - 0%
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Total - 48%

Page 3:
Pencils - 3%
Inks - 0%
Lettering - 5%
Toning - 0%
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Total - 1.25% "

I'll let you cipher it out.

An Empyreal Return

Well, I neglected to post from France (although in all honesty, I had plenty of opportunity) simply because I had little to update. Let it be known that I did start writing for SeaFox... which, I am reminded, I still owe an explanation post for (for easy reference). Nonetheless, it was real writing this time, not just plotting--something I haven't done (on paper) for too long. I find it difficult to write, however, without a thesaurus or at least a dictionary nearby; not because I feel I must "spice up" my writing with fancier words, but because I often think of words of which I can recall only one sound and the meaning (thus a thesaurus is helpful in that I can look up the meaning and work backwards from there by sounds). When I write without one, the page is dominated with circles marking "filler" phrases to be replaced later. Not to mention strike-throughs of ungodly length for lack of backspace button (assuming I'm writing on paper, with my new French fountain pen).